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So pretty much looking to get into 40k again, after awhile away from hobby, mostly want to play in competitive scene and was looking at doing an army with DG/Daemons any tips or info on list.

Battalion Detachment
HQ

Epidemius

Horticulus Slimux

Troops:

13 plague bearers

11 Plague bearers

11 plague bearers

Super Heavy Auxiliary Detachment

Mortarion

Spearhead Detachment

HQ:
Daemon Prince of Nurgle
Wings

Heavy Support:
x6 Plagueburst Crawler

smackpie wrote:
So pretty much looking to get into 40k again, after awhile away from hobby, mostly want to play in competitive scene and was looking at doing an army with DG/Daemons any tips or info on list.

Battalion Detachment
HQEpidemius
Horticulus Slimux

Troops:
13 plague bearers
11 Plague bearers
11 plague bearers

Better to have 15 in the one unit and 10 in the others ... 'course I'd say make one big assed unit of 29 given ITC scoring parameters. This will only yield 2 secondary points to your opponent, instead of the 3 you're offering with 13, 11, 11. Also consider:
From FLG: https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2018/02/10/codex-daemons-the-best-of-review/

"Spoilpox Scrivener – Makes your Plaguebearers that much better! Gives bonus to their movement and to hit. Combined with other buffs your Plaguebearers can be putting out a ton of damage with each hit."

Morty: The meta is so ready for him. He now needs his Death Shroud buddies to survive getting to the enemy. There are many d6 damage weapons waiting for him. Last tourney (today), the only player fielding him went 0-3, Wooden Spoon (a small field of 16 dudes, but competitive, none-the less). And he had Crawlers, & poxies, too. Poxies, which, with Typhus, IMHO, are better than Plague Bearers, given proper buffage.

smackpie wrote:
HQ: Daemon Prince of Nurgle Wings
Heavy Support: x6 Plagueburst Crawler

Relic?

And I dunno about the download below, but you might just type up your daemon detachment in a normal way.

Just so you know, the Feculent Gnarlmaws that you seed with Horticulous aren't free. You need to pay them with reinforcment points. PBCs could GREATLY benefit from gnarlmaws (and a poxbringer for the +1S too), but with this list you can't create any, which makes Horticulous a huge waste of points.

I don't know what slimux is doing in this list. You don't have trees or beasts.

In addition to trees not being free, you need to already have 1 in your list (meaning you can't drop a tree without a fortification detachment).

Thanks guy havn’t bought codex yet was just using battle scribe didn’t know I needed fortification detachment to use the gnarlmaws, with that being said probably will replace slimux with something else or morty with fortications and more PB/poxbringers

Honestly, in the current meta bringing Morty is a huge liability. Trust me, I love Morty and I have him beautifully painted, but he sits on the shelf because he dies turn 1 or 2.

Drop him and take a fortification detachment for 2 trees. I would then add 3 units of 3 nurglings. Also add poxbring, spoilpox scrivener, and make one of your 3 man bearer units a 30 man with a banner and Icon and you are good to Deep strikethose dudes. You can get them to have -2 to hit and their plague swords to deal 4 dmg each. Pretty sweet business right there.

 Commissar_Rex wrote:
I don't know what slimux is doing in this list. You don't have trees or beasts.

In addition to trees not being free, you need to already have 1 in your list (meaning you can't drop a tree without a fortification detachment).

You don't need a fortification detachment if you have slimux. He creates new ones using reinforcement points .

 Commissar_Rex wrote:
I don't know what slimux is doing in this list. You don't have trees or beasts.

In addition to trees not being free, you need to already have 1 in your list (meaning you can't drop a tree without a fortification detachment).

No, you don't need to have one already to use Horticulous and plant trees with him. I'm guessing you are misreading the "containing 1 Feculent Gnarlmaw" part, but that just refers to the fact that with Horticulous you plant a single gnarlmaw, despite the fact that you can normally buy up to 3 of them in a single slot (and they need to be within 6" ). Without that specifications, you could have planted a "slot" worth of gnarlmaws each turn, meaning up to 3 of them. But you CAN use Horticulous to plant gnarlmaws even without any in your list, you just have to pay reinforcement points for them.

Drop Morty - Agree not competitive in current meta

Don't agree with all the gnarlmaw hype - radius is small - it does NOT buff the save of the PBC - and will only be used for plaguebell chime and as a deterrent to melee (mortal wounds etc.) It moves the save from a 6+ to a 4+ which is one better than the daemon save - important to note I believe the unit also has to be wholey within...

If you have the PBC jsut run the 10x PBC list, 2x poxbringer with flesh abundance and miasma, 2x daemon prince and epidemius list. That list is more optimized for competition and is proven in competitive environ.